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author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2008-02-07 16:55:08 -0500 |
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committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2008-02-07 23:48:04 -0500 |
commit | 543a956140e1f57331c0e528d2367106057aeca0 (patch) | |
tree | 41cbe361027a982dc80c1e952a28152af6d89ce6 /Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt | |
parent | 9f2eef25e044603527e121066284d22f51d853cc (diff) |
ACPI: thermal: syntax, spelling, kernel-doc
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt | 23 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt index 5776e090359d..ba9c2da5a8c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt | |||
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The generic thermal sysfs provides a set of interfaces for thermal zone devices | |||
14 | and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register with the thermal management | 14 | and thermal cooling devices (fan, processor...) to register with the thermal management |
15 | solution and to be a part of it. | 15 | solution and to be a part of it. |
16 | 16 | ||
17 | This how-to focusses on enabling new thermal zone and cooling devices to participate | 17 | This how-to focuses on enabling new thermal zone and cooling devices to participate |
18 | in thermal management. | 18 | in thermal management. |
19 | This solution is platform independent and any type of thermal zone devices and | 19 | This solution is platform independent and any type of thermal zone devices and |
20 | cooling devices should be able to make use of the infrastructure. | 20 | cooling devices should be able to make use of the infrastructure. |
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ and throttle appropriate devices. | |||
41 | name: the thermal zone name. | 41 | name: the thermal zone name. |
42 | trips: the total number of trip points this thermal zone supports. | 42 | trips: the total number of trip points this thermal zone supports. |
43 | devdata: device private data | 43 | devdata: device private data |
44 | ops: thermal zone device callbacks. | 44 | ops: thermal zone device call-backs. |
45 | .bind: bind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device. | 45 | .bind: bind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device. |
46 | .unbind: unbing the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device. | 46 | .unbind: unbind the thermal zone device with a thermal cooling device. |
47 | .get_temp: get the current temperature of the thermal zone. | 47 | .get_temp: get the current temperature of the thermal zone. |
48 | .get_mode: get the current mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone. | 48 | .get_mode: get the current mode (user/kernel) of the thermal zone. |
49 | "kernel" means thermal management is done in kernel. | 49 | "kernel" means thermal management is done in kernel. |
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ and throttle appropriate devices. | |||
69 | It tries to bind itself to all the thermal zone devices register at the same time. | 69 | It tries to bind itself to all the thermal zone devices register at the same time. |
70 | name: the cooling device name. | 70 | name: the cooling device name. |
71 | devdata: device private data. | 71 | devdata: device private data. |
72 | ops: thermal cooling devices callbacks. | 72 | ops: thermal cooling devices call-backs. |
73 | .get_max_state: get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device. | 73 | .get_max_state: get the Maximum throttle state of the cooling device. |
74 | .get_cur_state: get the Current throttle state of the cooling device. | 74 | .get_cur_state: get the Current throttle state of the cooling device. |
75 | .set_cur_state: set the Current throttle state of the cooling device. | 75 | .set_cur_state: set the Current throttle state of the cooling device. |
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ RO read only value | |||
109 | RW read/write value | 109 | RW read/write value |
110 | 110 | ||
111 | All thermal sysfs attributes will be represented under /sys/class/thermal | 111 | All thermal sysfs attributes will be represented under /sys/class/thermal |
112 | /sys/class/thermal/ | ||
113 | 112 | ||
114 | Thermal zone device sys I/F, created once it's registered: | 113 | Thermal zone device sys I/F, created once it's registered: |
115 | |thermal_zone[0-*]: | 114 | |thermal_zone[0-*]: |
@@ -129,7 +128,7 @@ Thermal cooling device sys I/F, created once it's registered: | |||
129 | These two dynamic attributes are created/removed in pairs. | 128 | These two dynamic attributes are created/removed in pairs. |
130 | They represent the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated cooling device. | 129 | They represent the relationship between a thermal zone and its associated cooling device. |
131 | They are created/removed for each | 130 | They are created/removed for each |
132 | thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device successful exection. | 131 | thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device/thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device successful execution. |
133 | 132 | ||
134 | |thermal_zone[0-*] | 133 | |thermal_zone[0-*] |
135 | |-----cdev[0-*]: The [0-*]th cooling device in the current thermal zone | 134 | |-----cdev[0-*]: The [0-*]th cooling device in the current thermal zone |
@@ -147,11 +146,11 @@ type Strings which represent the thermal zone type. | |||
147 | Optional | 146 | Optional |
148 | 147 | ||
149 | temp Current temperature as reported by thermal zone (sensor) | 148 | temp Current temperature as reported by thermal zone (sensor) |
150 | Unit: degree celsius | 149 | Unit: degree Celsius |
151 | RO | 150 | RO |
152 | Required | 151 | Required |
153 | 152 | ||
154 | mode One of the predifned values in [kernel, user] | 153 | mode One of the predefined values in [kernel, user] |
155 | This file gives information about the algorithm | 154 | This file gives information about the algorithm |
156 | that is currently managing the thermal zone. | 155 | that is currently managing the thermal zone. |
157 | It can be either default kernel based algorithm | 156 | It can be either default kernel based algorithm |
@@ -164,12 +163,12 @@ mode One of the predifned values in [kernel, user] | |||
164 | charge of the thermal management. | 163 | charge of the thermal management. |
165 | 164 | ||
166 | trip_point_[0-*]_temp The temperature above which trip point will be fired | 165 | trip_point_[0-*]_temp The temperature above which trip point will be fired |
167 | Unit: degree celsius | 166 | Unit: degree Celsius |
168 | RO | 167 | RO |
169 | Optional | 168 | Optional |
170 | 169 | ||
171 | trip_point_[0-*]_type Strings which indicate the type of the trip point | 170 | trip_point_[0-*]_type Strings which indicate the type of the trip point |
172 | Eg. it can be one of critical, hot, passive, | 171 | E.g. it can be one of critical, hot, passive, |
173 | active[0-*] for ACPI thermal zone. | 172 | active[0-*] for ACPI thermal zone. |
174 | RO | 173 | RO |
175 | Optional | 174 | Optional |
@@ -179,7 +178,7 @@ cdev[0-*] Sysfs link to the thermal cooling device node where the sys I/F | |||
179 | RO | 178 | RO |
180 | Optional | 179 | Optional |
181 | 180 | ||
182 | cdev[0-*]_trip_point The trip point with which cdev[0-*] is assocated in this thermal zone | 181 | cdev[0-*]_trip_point The trip point with which cdev[0-*] is associated in this thermal zone |
183 | -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip point. | 182 | -1 means the cooling device is not associated with any trip point. |
184 | RO | 183 | RO |
185 | Optional | 184 | Optional |
@@ -211,7 +210,7 @@ cur_state The current cooling state of this cooling device. | |||
211 | 210 | ||
212 | ACPI thermal zone may support multiple trip points like critical/hot/passive/active. | 211 | ACPI thermal zone may support multiple trip points like critical/hot/passive/active. |
213 | If an ACPI thermal zone supports critical, passive, active[0] and active[1] at the same time, | 212 | If an ACPI thermal zone supports critical, passive, active[0] and active[1] at the same time, |
214 | it may register itself as a thermale_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all. | 213 | it may register itself as a thermal_zone_device (thermal_zone1) with 4 trip points in all. |
215 | It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as thermal_cooling_device. | 214 | It has one processor and one fan, which are both registered as thermal_cooling_device. |
216 | If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0 method, | 215 | If the processor is listed in _PSL method, and the fan is listed in _AL0 method, |
217 | the sys I/F structure will be built like this: | 216 | the sys I/F structure will be built like this: |